OT: HTML Emails -- Re: Other than frys where would you get server hardware

Mon Feb 2 13:23:31 MST 2009

There are, in fact, a few of us (like me) who use text only readers for 
various reasons (such as visual impairment) and html formatted messages 
are definitely the bane of out existence.

its been proper etiquette on the internet since its inception that mail 
usually is plain text and if you wish to send media (pictures, etc) that 
its attached (in mime printable form). this may seem archaic, but it 
generally works out well for most of us.

now my client here can read html formatted messages, but the speech 
device will not read me the output, instead it will read the underlying 
source of the text (which gets noisy, frustrating, and tends to have me 
filter such without even reading it)

I, for one, have a problem with such mails and tend to filter them into 
the junk box. if anything important gets in there, its gone (if its 
really important, the sender will have sent as plain text with an html 
attachment <preferred>. this way, I can still read it and those with 
extra features can use the html to their own contentment).

sorry of I may seem a bit terse toward those using html formatted text 
messages, but you folks should be aware there are almost 30 million 
others like me and we would rather not have our lives made any harder 
than it already is.

JD Austin wrote:
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>
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Nathan England 
> <nathan at paysonlinux.org <mailto:nathan at paysonlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Wednesday 28 January 2009 11:49:48 Patrick Jacques wrote:
>     > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
>     > <html>
>
>     Is there a way for mailman or whatever the mail list manager is to
>     wipe out
>     html messages and only send the plain text?
>
>     Or better yet, is there a way for my procmail to do it?
>
>     nathan
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> I never have understood why some people have an issue with html mail; 
> unless you view mail on a teletype machine you can choose how it is 
> displayed.  Most modern mail clients have an option to view the text 
> version of the email instead of html.   In Thunderbird it is in view 
> -> message body as plain text.
>
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